W.H.: Rubio response 'could have been delivered by Gov. Romney'

2/13/13 11:00 AM EST

Sen. Marco Rubio's response to President Obama's State of the Union address sounded so much like Mitt Romney's proposals during the 2012 campaign that it could have been delivered by the former Republican presidential candidate, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday.

The ideas Rubio laid out were "entirely consistent with the policy ideas that Mitt Romney campaigned on last year and the American people did not support," Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Asheville, N.C., where Obama will discuss the manufacturing proposals he rolled out in his Tuesday night speech.